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THE RURAI> NEW-YORKER 
April 10, 1915. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
The following officers have been elected 
for the Anti-Fake Club: 
President Dr. Ira Ulinan, 213 West 
147th St., New York. 
Secretary M. G. Keyes, 333 West 30th 
St., New \ r ork. 
Treasurer The Rubai, New-Yorker, 
333 West 30th St., New York. 
As yet no changes have been suggested 
in the constitution of the Club as pub¬ 
lished in the issue of February 20th. The 
name will accordingly be the ANTI¬ 
FAKE CLUB. The above officers will 
serve until their successors are elected. 
There are no dues for membership, but 
voluntary contributions to bear the ex¬ 
penses may be made at any time by any 
member. The officers serve without pay 
and the only expense will be for post¬ 
age. The Rural New-Yorker has con¬ 
tributed $25 as a treasury fund. 
Any person may become a member by 
sending his or her name to the secre¬ 
tary with the promise to perform the 
duties of membership as faithfully as pos¬ 
sible. 
The duties of the membership are to 
report to the secretary any case of de¬ 
ception or fraud of a general character 
that comes to his or her attention; to 
refuse to encourage or patronize any 
scheme that promises quick riches at un¬ 
usual profits; to protest to publishers 
against the publication of fake or fraud¬ 
ulent advertising; and if the publisher 
persists to refuse to allow the publica¬ 
tion to come into the home. 
If shippers of farm produce to New 
York City markets have any reason to 
suspect that they have not been fairly 
treated, by the consignee or the transpor¬ 
tation companies, complaint should be 
made promptly to the New York State 
Department of Foods and Markets, 71 
West 23rd Street, New York. With the 
complaint, the shipper should send ship¬ 
ping receipt or bill of lading, or if these 
are not immediately available, send de¬ 
tails of date, amount and condition of 
shipment, and name and address of con¬ 
signee. It is a function of the Depart¬ 
ment to act as the representative of the 
farmer when its services are needed and 
required, and shippers are invited to 
make free use of the services of the De¬ 
partment. In correcting individual 
abuses it is hoped to find a way to cor¬ 
rect general defects of the distribution 
system in New York. 
We want to again warn shippers not to 
send produce to unknown parties. D. 
L. O’Connor of 136 Liberty Street, 
New York, and Huguenot Park, Staten 
Island, N. Y., ordered farm produce 
from advertisers in the Subscriber’s 
Exchange. The goods were sent, but 
no adjustment made. We took the mat¬ 
ter up with Mr. O’Connor, and were ad¬ 
vised that he had met with an accident 
and would make payment shortly. Not 
wishing to act arbitrarily under such 
circumstances, we waited some time. 
Further inquiry failed to elicit any re¬ 
sponse. In the meantime another sub¬ 
scriber complained he had shipped goods 
to C. J. O’Connor at the same address 
and received no adjustment. In response 
to our inquiry C. J. O’Connor telephoned 
that he had never ordered the goods, but 
the order at least bears his name. The 
entire matter is going to the Post Office 
Department, and we think these gentle¬ 
men will not be encouraged to continue 
the practice of ordering goods for which 
they evidently have no intention of pay¬ 
ing. The Post Office Department will not 
be able to get the remittances, but they 
can prevent the use of the mails in this 
way. 
Please advise me if you can furnish 
any information about the reliability of 
A. Seckendorf, 1600 Bath Avenue, Bath 
Beach, Long Island? He has solicited 
shipments of eggs from me, and if I re¬ 
member rightly his name was mentioned 
in your paper once as being of question¬ 
able reputation. If you can give me any 
information it will be appreciated very 
much. c. A. W. 
New Jersey. 
We have had complaints that Mr. Seck¬ 
endorf solicited shipments and neglected 
to pay for them. lie finally made some 
adjustments, but we still have an un¬ 
settled claim in hand. This is sufficient 
to make it impracticable for our readers 
to entrust their products to him. As he 
is again soliciting shipments we would 
suggest adding his name to the list of 
parties who are to be passed by when 
marketing goods. 
Sometime ago I wrote you asking about 
the Louisiana Irrigation Company. Your 
advice in that case was sound. They are 
in the hands of receivers and prospects 
are not very good for the investors. I 
wish to thank you for your prompt and 
courteous attention to all my inquiries, 
some of which may seem insignificant. 
This particular part of your paper is do¬ 
ing an immense amount of good. 
Pennsylvania. J. n. M. 
This is the result of more than 75% of 
the land promotion schemes so widely ad¬ 
vertised. Their glowing accounts lead 
one to anticipate a fortune with little or 
no work, but the wise man is he who 
goes to a locality, looks over the section 
and makes his selection outside of the 
land offered by these speculators. We 
are glad at all times to answer any in¬ 
quiries we can in the best way we can, 
and aim to make this service prompt and 
reliable. Occasionally a large volume of 
mail causes a delay in reply, and at times 
we mislay a letter, or it gets into the 
wrong department and this occasions a 
delay, but we want to be of real service, 
and will be glad to have advice or sug¬ 
gestions at any time if improvements sug¬ 
gest themselves to our readers. 
What do you think of the following 
paragraph from M.vrick in reference to 
the Standard Home Company of Bir¬ 
mingham, Ala.: “Farm and Home has 
long waged relentless warfare against all 
fake loan concerns. With the exception 
of the hearty cooperation in our work of 
Orange Judd farm weeklies, this national 
magazine of rural life has been the only 
periodical to fully, adequately and per¬ 
sistently expose these swindlers. But for 
the efforts of Farm and Home, these lot¬ 
tery banks that fleeced their depositors 
might have gotten away with twice as 
much.” 
He does not seem to be inclined to ex¬ 
pose the Myrick Building transfer or 
certificates in which so many of his vic¬ 
tims are interested. H. A. c. 
Pennsylvania. 
Let us give Myrick all the credit that 
is due him. Some two years after The 
R. N.-Y. exposed the Standard Home 
scheme, and one of its southern 
subscribers had interested the Ala¬ 
bama District Attorney, and secui'ed 
an indictment through the help of the 
correspondence and information furn¬ 
ished by TnE R. N.-Y., and all danger 
was passed, Myrick did then in perfect 
safety and with characteristic bravado 
publish a show-up of the system. You 
want to know what we think of the para¬ 
graph. We think it is characteristic of 
Myrick. There is no evidence that he 
ever furnished a single fact as evidence 
against the concern. In fact the evi¬ 
dence was secured and the indictment 
found before he discovered there was 
such a concern, yet he claims all the cre¬ 
dit for the results secured by the Dis¬ 
trict Attoimey and the courts. The R. 
N.-Y. claims no credit for the apprehen¬ 
sion of such concerns. It is the people 
themselves who really do it, and it was 
an Alabama subscriber to The R. N.-Y. 
who deserves the credit of this legal re¬ 
sult. 
There are probably some people who 
are not yet informed as to Myrick’s fake 
schemes, and such persons may be mis¬ 
led by his pretensions of virtue; but in 
well informed circles his braggadocio pre¬ 
tensions excite only amusement or con¬ 
tempt. 
On August 6 I sent seven baskets of 
peaches to John Blum, 345 North Front 
Street, Philadelphia, Pa. He wrote me 
the peaches sold for 50 cents a basket but 
I have received no remittance. Can you 
get this for me? E. B. c. 
Delaware. 
We were unable to induce Mr. Blum 
to send remittance and the subscriber 
will have to credit this experience to 
profit and loss, and refuse to make ship¬ 
ments to a party without a rating in the 
future. In the meantime Mr. Blum has 
moved and left no forwarding address, 
but it is safe to assume he will be look¬ 
ing for peaches next year, and it will be 
well to bear him in mind. 
“I heard that your engagement to 
Adela has been broken, and I presume 
that it was caused by your feeling of 
delicacy at hearing that she had inheri¬ 
ted a large fortune.” “Not at all! It 
was caused by her indelicate feeling on 
learning that I had no money!”—Mel¬ 
bourne Leader. 
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